15 h. ago Cheryl Tweedy's killer stalker, who 'scared her young child', is back in prison after being secretly freed after just three months

Bannister, 51, was jailed for 12 months in September last year for breaching a restraining order that prevented him from contacting the Girls Aloud star.

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20 h. ago Cheryl Tweedy's stalker freed from prison after just three months but jailed again

Daniel Bannister was sentenced to a year behind bars last September after stalking Girls Aloud star Cheryl and breaching a restraining order by turning up at her home

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30 h. ago Cheryl Tweedy's stalker Daniel Bannister is freed from prison after just three months

Cheryl Tweedy was terrified after Daniel Bannister repeatedly turned up at her home, and "displayed fixated, obsessive, unwanted and repetitive behaviour" towards the Girls Aloud singer

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6 d. ago Family of inmate found dead in his prison cell say they have been 'left in the dark' for seven months

The family of prisoner Ace Wilson, 25, who was found dead in his cell at HMP Leeds say they have been 'left in the dark' by authorities investigating the incident more than seven months on.

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6 d. ago Drivers caught speeding a certain level above the limit in France will get a criminal conviction under new rules

UK drivers would be subject to the French legal system, including a fine of up to £3,250 and the possibility of the immediate confiscation of their car and a three-month prison sentence.

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7 d. ago Donald Trump says rapper P Diddy has asked him to pardon his prison sentence

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, known in the music industry as P Diddy, was sentenced to 50 months in prison in October after he was found guilty on prostitution-related charges.

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7 d. ago David Coote's 'shattering' fall from grace as top referee avoids prison

David Coote has been handed a nine-month prison sentence after admitting to possessing an indecent image of a child, with Judge Nirmal Shant describing it as a “spectacular fall from grace”

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9 d. ago Dad reversed car into pedestrians after pulling chainsaw from boot of his Audi

Josh Grant, 39, was told by a judge that he has five months to get his life together or he will go to prison when he returns to court for sentencing in May

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1 week ago Ten people who spread false claims France's First Lady Brigitte Macron was born a man are found guilty of cyberbullying in Paris

A Paris court handed the defendants suspended prison sentences of up to eight months for the 'particularly degrading and insulting' comments.

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1 week ago Paris court finds 10 guilty of harassing Brigitte Macron online

Teacher and publicist among those convicted of maliciously posting or sharing false claims French first lady is a manEurope live – latest updatesA Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that falsely claimed she was a man.Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brits escape death sentence after smuggling £300k worth of cocaine in Angel Delight

Drug mules Lisa Stocker and Jon Collyer have been freed from their Bali prison hellhole, getting back to the UK within months despite risking the firing squad over their cocaine-smuggling scheme

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3 w. ago Breaking bad: The huge number of prison officers dismissed in the last 12 months

More than a thousand prison staff have faced disciplinary action so far this year in Britain, damning new figures reveal.

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3 w. ago Notorious paedophile dies in prison just months into sentence for raping young girls

He told police in 2024 that, while he did not deny the allegations, he would give no further comment, with a judge later calling his efforts to remain mute on his offences as an attempt to keep his "evil secret safe".

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3 w. ago Hidden tragedies of Paul Doyle's victims from hero losing work to children scarred forever

Father-of-three Paul Doyle was sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison this week after driving through a crowd of hundreds of football supporters, causing horrific injuries. Now many of his victims have bravely spoken out

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3 w. ago Man who attacked cellmate with 'prison napalm' over vape found dead behind bars

Danny Smith, 34, threw a kettle of boiling water mixed with sugar over his cellmate in 2023 - he was found dead in his prison cell last month

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3 w. ago Notorious fraudster who conned his girlfriend out of her life savings while posing as an MI6 agent and Swiss banker is ordered to pay her back £125,000

Mark Acklom, 52, previously admitted five counts of fraud against Carolyn Woods, from Gloucestershire, and was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison in 2019.

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4 w. ago Rapper Wiz Khalifa sentenced to jail in Romania for drug possession after 'lighting up at festival'

Wiz Khalifa has been sentence to nine months in prison after he was said to have lit a joint while dancing to The Next Episode, with the US musician expected to appeal

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4 w. ago Bizarre demand prisoner made in court after conviction for weapons in his cell

Richard Mullen, known as 'Superned', was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of having homemade weapons in his cell in Addiewell Prison

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4 w. ago Moment killer strolls back to supermarket to attack father in row over a queue jump

Demiesh Williams, 30, was today sentenced to five years and three months in prison over the death of Andrew Clark, who was described as a 'hard-working family man'.

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